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History

3 tropes of white victimhood

The Atlantic

History professor Lawrence Glickman writes in The Atlantic that in the conservative world, the idea that white people in the United States are under siege has become doctrine.

Samantha Sheppard
Samantha Sheppard
Performing & Media Arts

PMA professor named Academy Film Scholar

A&S Communications

Samantha N. Sheppard, associate professor of performing and media arts, has been named a 2021 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Image of hundreds of microscopic proteins shaped like cylinders
Kellogg Lab provided A cryo-electron microscopy image of TnsC filaments.
Molecular Biology & Genetics

Advanced microscopy shines light on new CRISPR-Cas system

Cornell Chronicle

The CRISPR-Cas system holds promise for developing an improved gene editing tool.

Wedding bouquet and rings
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Sociology

Choose wisely: Spouses consolidate resources in families

Cornell Chronicle

In consolidating multiple types of resources, married partners deal themselves and their children better hands with long-term payoffs, but the process may amplify inequality across generations.

Person receiving vaccine
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Government

Vaccine acceptance higher in developing nations than U.S.

Cornell Chronicle

The study provides one of the first insights into vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in a broad selection of low- and middle-income countries, covering more than 20,000 survey respondents.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Literatures in English

From Kenya to Cornell, writer Mukoma ranges across genres

Cornell Chronicle

Mukoma Wa Ngugi channeled his fascination with Ethiopian "Tizita" songs into his fourth novel, “Unbury Our Dead With Song,” which will be published Sept. 21.

Astronomy

Lai and Mish win initial graduate, professional teaching prize

Cornell Chronicle

Dong Lai, M.S. ’91, Ph.D. ’94, professor of astronomy, has won Cornell’s inaugural Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in Graduate and Professional Degree Programs.

Physics

Chaotic electrons heed ‘limit’ in strange metals

Cornell Chronicle

"We are finally unlocking the enigma behind the intense motions of electrons in strange metals.”

Reflections of Mars' South Pole
ESA/Mars Express Mars’ south pole – which looks like creamy swirls in cappuccino – is an icy cap with carbon dioxide and other geologic traits. About a mile below the cap is smectite, a hydrated version of clay.
Astronomy

Mars’ bright south pole reflections may be clay – not water

Cornell Chronicle

“Those bright reflections have been big news over the last few years because they were initially interpreted as liquid water below the ice.”

Performing & Media Arts

Book explores historical queerness of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Cornell Chronicle

“What’s really interesting about the space and these artists is that there is a queerness that has always been at the cafe, but that has never been used to frame the space.”